Cracking Cisco Passwords

This article provides information on decrypting passwords stored in a Cisco router.

Hackers often attack routers because they are not monitored as closely as servers and can provided an enormous source of information. Cisco routers will store all passwords in the running configuration file. In order to get this password you must view the output from the routers running configuration using the command below:

Using a program called Cain and Abel, you can copy and paste the encrypted password shown in red, right into the cain decryption window. You can download Cain and Abel by clicking here. See the images below:

Using the second encryption value from the above configuration output (03085E1F0B0A2842), you can see the password is "letmein"